Dale Laney walked over to the folding tabale beneath the front window inside the Buford Little General Store on Monday night. He stared at the green, yellow, red, blue and purple boxes that were neatly stacked by color.

So many tempting choices, so little time. But for Laney, his mind was made up, already having given in to the temptatation of vanilla cookies convered on top and bottom, then rolled in coconut and striped with chocolate.

Now in its fourth year, the shop hop is co-sponsored by the Piecemakers Quilt Guild of Heath Springs and the Magic Needle Quilt Guild of Lancaster.

The craft show offers almost everything needed to create your own handmade heirlooms under one roof.

The One Stop Shop Hop was created by local sewing enthusiasts Janet Nelson and Pat Ussery in an effort to make quilting and sewing idea and materials easier to find. By providing this one-day event each year, the products come to you.

For the bluegrass duo of Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent, the last two weeks have been a blessing.

The reigning International Bluegrass Music Association’s Entertainers of the Year have just seen their most recent album, “Dailey & Vincent Sing the Statler Brothers” debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums chart.

Some of those Statler songs – blended in a distinct bluegrass sound and harmony – will ring out from the Fairway Room on Saturday night when Dailey & Vincent return to Lancaster.

As the resident “house band” at the Dollywood Theme Park in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., it’s estimated that the Kingdom Heirs sing to more than 2 million people each year – more than any other Southern gospel group.

They put on multiple performances each day from March through October.

When that ends, there is Christmas show that runs through Jan.1. And it’s been that way since 1986.

That only gives the Kingdom Heirs about eight weeks a year to get out on the road.

When she selected a Valentine’s Day card for her husband, Mont, and daughters, India, 7, and Regan, 3, at Annette’s Hallmark on Friday, those little love notes number among the 190 million cards that will be exchanged in the United States today.

But if you count the number of cards exchanged in classrooms this year, that number tops 1 billion, according to the Greeting Card Association.

Having the Glenn Miller Orchestra return here Saturday at 7:30 p.m. as part of the See Lancaster SC Performing Arts Series was a foregone conclusion.

In January 2007, the talented big-band musicians played to a sold-out crowd on the Bundy Auditorium stage inside the Bradley Arts and Sciences Building at the University of South Carolina at Lancaster.

The warm welcome they were shown three years ago, along with some down home hospitality, is reason enough to come back, said band leader Larry O’Brien.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for several surrounding counties this weekend, but as of Thursday morning, Lancaster wasn’t one of them.

Still, with the county poised along a transition line and low temperatures forecast in the upper 20s tonight and high temperatures in the lower 30s on Saturday, there’s really no way of knowing what to expect.

As long as there has been a flat rock, mankind has been using it to make pancakes.

From Day 1, pancakes have been “a good answer to a necessity,” writes Naomi Duguid, co-author of “Home Baking: Sweet and Savory Traditions from Around the World.”

Pancakes, Duguid says, are one of the most improvised foods in the world. It is one of the original fast foods made with cheap, easy-to-find ingredients – flour, eggs, and milk – which gives pancakes a versatility that many foods just don’t have.